Wolf King

Use a knife to pry open the canned fruit mud (burnt white mud), unscrew the bottle cap, insert the sweet and sour pulp in the bottle, and hand it to the crystal ball.

"This is the pulp of Amit red heart fruit, a specialty of the Elf Forest. It matures from July to September every year. It is edible after peeling off the peel. The pulp is pink and slightly sour. Forest elves like to eat it in pieces and dip it in sugar. At low temperature It can be stored for half a month to 20 days in the environment, and then it will be dehydrated, deteriorated, and spoiled."

Auston: "??"

Xiao Yun stuffed the canned pulp into his mouth, and continued: "However, if you cut it into pieces with the skin on, soak it in boiled and cooled berry juice, and vacuum seal it, the sour taste of Amit red heart fruit will disappear after about ten days. It interacts with the berry juice, the sourness is weakened, and the mellow fruity sweetness is fermented, and the storage period will be extended to ten months."

"What exactly do you want to say?" Alston suppressed his saliva and said with a dark face.

"If the Amit red heart fruit picked from the tree is not eaten, it will definitely go bad." Xiao Yun inserted the fast fruit pulp into his mouth and chewed it beautifully. The storage period can last up to ten months. The longer the storage time, the longer it can be eaten."

"Simple! The way of speaking is simple!" Alston couldn't help kicking the crystal wall with his feet.

"Didn't I express it clearly enough? The Amit red heart fruit that will definitely go bad can be eaten before it goes bad." Xiao Yun calmly said, "Whether it is a partner or a subordinate, they will be as good as the Amit red heart fruit." If it goes bad, it will betray you sooner or later, either by prying your corner or stabbing you with a knife. But before it goes bad, do you want to say that this thing can't be eaten after a long time, why not just throw it away?"

Auston opened his mouth wide.

"Smart creatures say that they will always be loyal and never betray. That's not realistic. Don't talk about alien races. How rare is it for the same race to stab each other?" Xiao Yun PIAJIPIAJI chewed the pulp, and the full and sweet juice ran down the corner of his mouth Dripping down, "Since we need to employ people, why care about whether the other party will deteriorate sooner or later, just extend the storage period and use it vigorously within the shelf life."

"(o words o)..." Oston swallowed, and suddenly came back to his senses, and angrily slapped the crystal wall with his hands and feet, "Then you just say it and it's over!! You deliberately found a chance to eat it for me Let's see!!"

"Yes~~ah~~" Xiao Yun elongated his tone with a smile, and stuck a piece of fruit pulp into his mouth with a knife, "Amit canned red heart fruit is the most expensive fruit product in our tribe. There is only a quota of ten cans every month. Your son Balk snatched five cans from me last time, and I have to eat the remaining five cans for you to see... No, I will eat with you."

"You've spoken the truth yourself, bastard——!"

"You heard wrong."

"Talk with your eyes!!"

After yelling a few times, Auston sat back angrily, folded his hands on his chest, stared at Xiao Yun and said, "How you want to employ people is up to you, but you can't abduct my son so shamelessly. Well, I won't let it be that simple."

"Abduction? Hehe..." Xiao Yun chuckled, and looked at Auston meaningfully: "If your father, Lord Aldrich, treated you like you did to Balk, how grateful would you be to your father?"

"That's different, Balk is only over 1000 years old!" Auston immediately shouted.

"Okay." Xiao Yun spread his hands, "Balke has lived with you for more than 1000 years, and it's only been four years since he came to our tribe. See for yourself that Balk has a lot of smiling faces and relaxed people when he was with us. Or do you smile more when you are with you?"

Auston choked so hard that he said stiffly, "That's a matter between our father and son, and the matter of the Dragon Clan, can you control it?"

"Lord Auston, you have no right to comment on the father-son dispute between you and Balk as an outsider." Xiao Yun smiled, "But Balk is your son, a member of the Dragon Clan, and a friend of our Snow Wolf Clan. Sharing worries for friends and respecting their free will, isn't that too much?"

"What is Balk's wish? Isn't it because you bewitched him!" Auston slapped his thigh hard with his short hand, "Do you want to say that making vermicelli for you is something Balk voluntarily did? Don't be ridiculous!"

Xiao Yun's face turned serious: "Is Lord Auston looking down on Balk's career?"

"What kind of career is making vermicelli, don't you look down on the great dragon clan?!" Alston roared.

"This is a big mistake." Xiao Yun slapped the lid of the can and sat down solemnly, "So far this year, Balk's flour mill has consumed 8000 million catties of sweet potatoes and produced more than 500 million catties Vermicelli, do you know what this concept is? Taking the human race as an example, assuming that a poor human race can only eat vermicelli, two meals a day, one catty of vermicelli saves two days, enough to feed a city of 10 people for 10 days. It’s almost a year. If this is an army of 10 people, it’s equivalent to Balk’s supply of rations for this army for half a year, Lord Auston, can you withstand the siege of a human army of [-] people for half a year?”

"...Wait, no, that's not how it is calculated. How can there be an army that goes out as long as it has rations?" Oston was almost fooled, but fortunately he reacted in time.

The old dragon who has lived for a long time is not so easy to be fooled by the idea of ​​stealth. Xiao Yun simply changed his words: "Balke can support tens of thousands of mouths after five months of work. The dragon clan', unwilling to do this kind of work that is not enough for you, so I would like to ask the great Lord Alston, what kind of work should your son do to create a valuable output equivalent to that of the flour mill? Looting gold mines? Or squatting in the dragon's lair, sleeping and dreaming?"

"Uh..." Oston was really choking now. He seized a gold mine of the Elf King before, and the annual output was only a thousand gold coins. It really couldn't compare to the value created by Balk.

"And Balke didn't just make vermicelli. The 8000 million catties of sweet potatoes consumed by his flour mill were the agricultural output of the Ministry of Fire. When he finished making flour, he worked for the Ministry of Fire People bring revenue benefits and provide jobs for more than 500 workers in the flour mill.”

"Part of the vermicelli produced was sold to the forest elves of Ananas. Anas put part of the vermicelli into internal consumption to ensure food security for the city of Ananas, and part of it was sold to other cities and even the dwarf kingdom to create economic benefits. , benefit from it."

Auston's eyeballs fluttered wildly, and his stomach kept rising and falling. Xiao Yun waited for him to savor it for a while, and then smiled: "Ananas Elf has made money from vermicelli, so he will accept Balk's favor. If, I It means that if you and Balk tear each other apart and seriously fight to death, you said that the more than 1000 elf fighters in Ananas will stand by and watch the fun, or will they take the initiative to come to help Balk? ?”

Auston suddenly felt his scalp tingling, not to mention more than 1000 elf fighters, he couldn't handle hundreds of them...

"Last year, the forest elves purchased 500 million catties of vermicelli from Balk. This year, the total annual transaction volume negotiated between us is 2000 million catties." Xiao Yun said with a smile, "For every catty of vermicelli, even if the forest elves only earn The transfer fee of the two copper coins is settled, and the forest elves can earn [-] gold coins with the help of Balk's windfall from the vermicelli transaction. This is not a one-time windfall, but a steady income every year. You say... this Will the forest elves allow an unbreakable friendship built on the premise of a stable alliance of interests to be destroyed?"

"You, an old neighbor of the forest elves, can your face be greater than the annual income of at least eight thousand gold coins?"

Auston was completely silent, and the whole dragon was wilting... At this moment, he finally saw clearly that his son had completely shaken off his old father's control, and flew away with flapping wings.

The cooperation between the forest elves of Anas and the Ministry of Fire and Flame made most of the profits from the soy sauce.But vermicelli is indeed a source of income that the forest elves value, who would dislike the fact that money is too hot?That chick Evelyn was arguing with Balker a lot last year, but now she is willing to show Balker a little more sympathy—any problem is not a problem in front of interests!

"This year, we expect the output of the vermicelli factory to be 3000 million catties. The final selling price of every catty of vermicelli is up to ten copper coins. In other words, Balck works hard for a year, which directly and indirectly affects the flow of [-] gold coins. " Xiao Yun straightened his face, and said seriously, "It is not only our Snow Wolf family that benefits from the [-] gold coins, the entire production and sales lines are maintained by Balk, this is Balk's responsibility in the Fire Department. The economic value created by work. Lord Alston, are you still saying that Balck is engaged in a worthless business?"

Auston lay motionless at the bottom of the crystal ball, too lazy to talk to Xiao Yun, so he pretended he didn't hear...

Xiao Yun picked up the canned fruit, unscrewed the lid, and took a leisurely sip of the sweet juice.

In Xiao Yun's eyes, the pride, identity, and status of the dragon clan are just a piece of shit—sleeping in the dragon's nest, grabbing slaves and throwing off jewelry for nothing, and showing off their power all over the continent.

The value of any intelligent creature must and can only be based on labor. The value created by labor is the real value of intelligent creatures!

If a dragon is slaughtered and sold for money, how much can it be exchanged for by selling dragon blood, dragon skin, dragon scales and keel wheels?Work hard is serious!

The clansman rowed hard and floated against the current for more than ten minutes. Xiao Yun felt that the time for Auston to sink was too short, so he put down the canning bottle, reached out to pat the crystal ball, and said kindly: "Lord Auston, Speaking of which, we have been together for a while, and I can see that you care about Balk. Although I don’t agree with the way you do it, I can’t deny that you are indeed a good father. A long-lived and wise great dragon like you, of course not I think whether the son is well-behaved and obedient is more important than whether the son can be happy, right?"

Auston lazily ignored people.

Xiao Yun increased the dose: "Those stupid short-sighted short-lived species, um, for example, the human race, some of the parents of the human race will care more about the child's obedience to themselves than the child's happiness, as long as the child is obedient and well-behaved. , they will be able to obtain supreme joy and spiritual satisfaction. Why, because these short-sighted and stupid poor people live in an extremely humble life and cannot gain self-confidence from the outside world, so they have to find self-confidence and satisfaction in their own cubs. tie the cubs tightly to their lives, and not allow the only cubs that can provide them with satisfaction to escape... Of course the dragons don't do that, do they, Lord Alston?"

Auston's body froze, and he raised his head and grinned, "Of course not! The great dragons are not such shallow creatures!"

Xiao Yun nodded with a smile: "Let me just say, how could the Dragon Race have such shallow~thin~~ thoughts~ For example, now, knowing the achievements of Balk and being recognized by countless different races, Lord Auston, you Of course I was extremely happy, I was so happy that I couldn’t make a sound, I fell to the ground and cried bitterly, I was so emotional, I was so moved... I am so excited that my son has finally grown up, and I don’t need you to continue to protect him from the wind and rain——At the same time, I am a little bit small Lost, feel that your son no longer needs you, as an old father, you are very complicated... right?"

"..." Auston was so impressed by this devil cub's ability to open his eyes and talk nonsense that his whole body fell to the ground and he was trembling... But he couldn't refute it yet... biting the bullet and squinting his eyes, "No, that's right, That's it!"

Xiao Yun smiled and said, "As Balk's friend, I'm really saddened to see Balk's estrangement from his father, Lord Auston, you..."

Auston: "..." Your expression betrays your words, bastard!

"So, I have a suggestion that is completely out of goodwill." Xiao Yun's face turned sad in seconds, "Which father doesn't want to see respect and reverence in the eyes of his children forever? Balk, who is just over 1000 years old, can create six The economic value of [-] gold coins, Lord Alston, if you devote yourself to the powder making business, you will definitely be able to do a better job than Balk. Of course, this is not to destroy the child's self-confidence, but to show Balk that you are a father Charm, even though Balck is an adult, you are still his eternal role model, worthy of study and respect."

"..." Auston raised his short finger and pointed at Xiao Yun, expressionless, "Your expression in this passage is reversed from the previous one."

"Don't worry about these details~" Xiao Yun brazenly said, "In order to set an example for his children, the honorable Lord Alston devoted himself to the business of making flour and brought an endless supply of cheap and high-quality staple food to the people of Bloomfield Continent. Each race creates economic benefits of tens of thousands of gold coins each year, and the sense of existence of your father and son will be unique in the entire dragon clan. People on the whole continent may not know who the patriarch of the dragon clan is, but they will definitely know the names of your father and son—— "

"Shut up, devil! Do you think that the great Oston will be bewitched by your words? You just want to trick me into working for you like fooling that idiot Balk! You underestimate me!!" Ston couldn't stand it anymore, and slapped the crystal wall with his hands and feet and his tail.

"You misunderstood me too deeply, obviously it was for the sake of the child~~"

"How can a brat who has only lived for a few decades have the cheek to say that Balk is a child!"

"Okay." Xiao Yun sat back, picked up the can and continued to taste, "I sincerely hope that the relationship between your father and son can be eased, and you can have a common language to re-cultivate the relationship between father and son. Since Lord Auston doesn't appreciate it, I don't mind It can be said... oh, the flesh of this red heart fruit is really delicious!"

"Do you care about this thing!!" Alston said angrily.

Back in the tribe, Xiao Yun immediately went to the flour mill to look for Balk with the Oston ball in his pocket. When he saw someone, he patted him on the shoulder and said in a sad tone: "Balk, I tried to make your father understand how important your career is. Great and valuable, but unfortunately, Lord Auston does not agree with our philosophy, and even questioned your cause many times, thinking that your actions have tarnished the greatness of the Dragon Clan..."

Auston, who was lying on the crystal wall watching his son, raised his head in astonishment, and looked at Xiao Yun in disbelief.

Balk took off the Auston ball from Xiao Yun's waist with a blank expression, and held it up to the workshop workers: "Which cub lacks toys?"

Auston pointed at Xiao Yun sadly and angrily: "Are you a devil——!"

Xiao Yun smiled and waved to Auston.

There are also child laborers in the flour mill (…), and several snow wolf cubs who washed sweet potatoes happily ran towards Balk, stretching out their muddy claws.

Seeing that he was about to fall into the cub's claws, Auston had no choice but to let go of his restraint, patted the crystal wall and shouted: "Wait, I agree, you evil devil, take me back soon!"

"Agreed to what?" Balk turned back in doubt.

"Make powder for you together." Xiao Yun said with a smile.

"Hey——" Balk showed a disgusted expression, and stuffed the Alston ball into the hands of a certain cub, "Forget it, he will only add to the chaos."

Auston: "(o words o)... Wait! I'm serious! Balk, you little bastard, I'm your father!!"

Xiao Yun shrugged at Auston, giving him a helpless sympathetic face.

"Aoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

The next moment, the cubs slapped the crystal ball with the talking dragon and ran out of the workshop to play.

Xiao Yun set up a pergola with his hands to watch Auston go away howling, and smiled happily.

In fact, from the moment Auston brought up the unreliable elder of the Snake Clan, Xiao Yun had been able to confirm that the old dragon could be used.

The reason is very simple, all intelligent races will only be curious about things they are interested in; this kind of curiosity will go further, and will become caring about the other party's situation, or even consider the other party's position.

For example, in a deeply affectionate couple, the man would never describe his wife as a "female heart needle"... He is not interested in understanding, nor is he interested in taking the position of the other party to consider. Naturally, when the other party's thoughts and behaviors do not meet his expectations Annoyed and dissatisfied.

For an old dragon like Oston who has lived for thousands of years, it is extremely difficult to pass the level with a cannon. The only possibility for this old monster to be used by him is that he himself has such an idea, and Willing to be half pushed and half pushed in this direction.

Among other things, this old Tsundere who cares about his son but is so awkward at home, but he took the initiative to mention the powder making place~!

Auston has long been curious about the profession that Balck is engaged in, and is also interested in the operation mode of the Fire Department. The platform is actually very compelling, we are all for children and so on.

Just like this, Ya is still arrogantly playing big cards, waiting for Xiao Yun to kneel down and beg him to agree... This is just thinking about going astray, thinking about it!Who is Xiao Yun, who has seen through this guy's hole cards and is still used to your stinking problem?

Not rich enough~!

Patience is what is needed in the job of training Tsundere, and this Xiao Yun just doesn't lack it~!

After being tossed for a long time, the whole dragon's head was about to be blown up, and Auston waited for Xiao Yun's rescue...

In the event room.

Sean, Evelyn, Balk, and Xiao Yun from the spellcasting department sat around the table, and there was an Auston ball in the middle of the table.

"Let Lord Auston out...to be honest, it's more dangerous." Mr. Sean frowned, "Lord Auston is a great dragon that has lived for more than 3000 years. If he hadn't fallen to the ground to compete with Balk last time , we need to pay a large battle loss price to control him."

"Don't let it go." Balk said expressionlessly.

"Balk, I'm your father!" Alston jumped.

"Look, you have such a temper if you are still locked in, wouldn't it be more troublesome to let it out?" Balk spread his hands.

Xiao Yun seemed sympathetic: "Lord Auston, for the sake of the child, let's bear with it."

Balk: "??"

Mr. Xiao En looked at Xiao Yun strangely.

Auston sat back aggrieved.

"Hmm... Maybe we can consider using the method of our forest elves." Evelyn flipped through the magic scrolls for a long time, and spread out one of them, "Some of the goblins of our family's envoys are vicious in nature, and they need to block the ability to fly to carry out the operation." Control, restrict Lord Oston's wind control ability and dragon's breath magic, and he will not be able to fly into the air to destroy the tribe's property..."

"Is it the kind of magic that the snow elves used to seal the snowbird?" Mr. Xiao En was surprised.

Evelyn nodded: "Yes, this is a sealing technique evolved from the ancient magic of the high elves. Balk, if the Dragon Clan restricts the ability to control the wind and the dragon's breath magic, will it affect the recovery of mental power? "

"No." Balk said, "However, if he appears in his original form, he will still have troublesome destructive power."

"That is to limit the body together?" Mr. Xiao En thought for a while, "I have an idea, why not keep Oston's body locked in the barrier, and only allow him to release his mental power to shape into a A clone with less destructive power..."

Auston looked around in horror at the guys surrounding him, and finally turned his gaze to Xiao Yun. The dragon's face was full of fear——does being friends with the devil eventually degenerate into a devil? !

Xiao Yun met Auston's gaze and smiled: "What about Lord Auston's opinion? The coerciveness of the 'Law of Language' contract is against the principle of fairness, equality, friendship and harmony of the Fire Department, although it can only be compared with avatar activities." Inconvenient, but we do need a certain amount of time to cultivate trust. When all three present here agree with your contribution and trustworthiness to the Fire Department, we will completely lift the restrictions on you. Do you agree?"

Auston was silent for a moment, then aggrieved: "... yes."

Anyway, it can't be worse than being trapped in a ball and being treated as a toy!

Oston himself agreed, and the next unblocking will naturally be extremely smooth...Using the sealing magic of the forest elves to suppress Oston's wind element affinity and dragon's breath magic to the minimum, Mr. Xiao En made another move to open the sealing ball , releasing Oston’s spiritual body; I saw a wave of light and shadow in the activity room, the huge spiritual power of the dragon clan escaped from the seal, concentrated, gathered, and finally formed a miniature that was as big as a palm and smaller than when it was in the sphere Pocket dragon.

Getting out of the crystal ball, Auston immediately cast fiery eyes on Xiao Yun, took a deep breath, raised his head, his neck became thicker, and his cheeks bulged.

Xiao Yun stretched out his arms around Balk, pressed Balk and his cheeks against each other, and looked at Auston with a smile.

When Balk untied the rope, he sprayed dragon breath on my face first. I don't know what style you green dragons have... If you have the ability, you can even spray your son.

Balk: "??"

Auston: "..." He swallowed Long Yan back aggrievedly, coughing uncontrollably.

When Patriarch Arthur came to report to the tribe again, he was extremely surprised to see a palm-sized little dragon flying around Balk, yelling words like "rebellious son" and "little bastard".

Balk got impatient, and slapped him, but Xiaolong could dodge it very quickly...

"Ah Yun, look!" Balk called out to Xiao Yun angrily.

"Since we are talking about work, you should be patient and talk to your father." Xiao Yun comforted, "When the branch factory is built, he will be busy himself, and you can be quiet."

"He eats my food and drinks my food, and catches me scolding my son every day!" Balk was unconvinced.

"He has no income to spend your money for the time being, and he will pay you back in the future, so you can let him order by himself~" Xiao Yun ate the soup while practicing Taipingquan, and threw it at Auston "I understand you, we It's all for the children" soothing eyes.

Balk had no choice but to stand up with a dark face, and accompany Auston to the window to get him another dish.

Chief Arthur swallowed the braised pork in his mouth, and said in a low voice, "That's Balk's father, Oston? Released?"

"There is a shortage of manpower to make powder, and the old dragon who is in custody has to borrow it." Xiao Yun said calmly.

Chief Arthur: "..."